Originally Posted by jasonaerts

Well i know the drive works so long as i plug it in directly to the motherboard IDE.
It is the only drive hooked up to the Maxtor Ultra ATA-133, and its not boot-able, just random files and such and my other drive is SATA

Do you mean i should try unpluging my SATA drive? No.

*Also*
I got everything to boot up with my DVD/Rom drives hooked up to the Maxtor, but windows booted up weird, then i got mouse lag and such. Could that be caused by and address conflict?

Is there a Windows installation on the IDE HDD? Make sure the boot order in BIOS is set to SATA HDD first.

I just need everything hooked up and working so i guess i really dont care whats hooked up to the Maxtor so long as it all works, maybe i should go that route ?

Maxtor? Isn't the controller card from Promise?

Should i be using a CD cable for my HDD and not an HDD cable?

The IDE ribbon cables (and SATA) are the same for CD and HD drives.
Use an 80-wire cable.